Phill Coxon wrote:
Occassionally on my new server (Mandrake 2006) something starts a *lot*
of disk activity causing the desktop to get very sluggish for 5 minutes
or so. Very likely some database indexing files on the drive.
Two questions:
Not answering the questions but -- check /var/log/messages -- my machine is
not a new one but produces this effect with the number of disk i/o errors
as the disk is dying. :-(
Pete
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